"'Tamoson Buffum' -- This Christian name is a corruption of Thomasine. It is variously spelled in early records. The complier prefers to concur with Walter N Buffum, the writer, with the spelling "Tamoson", because that is the way Joshua Buffum spells the name (his mother's) in his account book . . ."! For the sake of consistency this form, "Tamoson", has been assigned to the wife of Robert Buffum and all bearing the name through the third generation. Thereafter the best evidence is that those who possessed the name used the shorter form, Tamson." [2]